Inspired by Surrealism’s embrace of chance and by the capricious
movements of Alexander Calder’s sculptures, the Belgian artist Pol Bury created
his own kinetic art beginning in the 1940s—motorized, spinning paintings,
subtly shifting cut-paper reliefs, and slowly moving metal sculptures. In 1963
he created his first cinetization—a
photo-collage suggesting movement within the print—an art form he

pursued for the remainder of his career. By cutting
concentric circles in a photograph and reassembling the pieces with a slight
twist, Bury suggested a playful dance of volumes in what was then the world’s
tallest building, the Sears Tower.